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Airship meaning
A lighter-than-air aircraft that can be propelled forward through the air as well as steered. | A police air unit, a police helicopter. | Any aircraft.
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An Astra-Torres airship In 1902, the Spanish engineer Leonardo Torres Quevedo published details of an innovative airship design in Spain and France.
Artwork The Led Zeppelin album cover depicts the Hindenburg airship seconds after catching fire Led Zeppelin's front cover, which was chosen by Page, features a black-and-white image of the burning Hindenburg airship.
Following a series of airship disasters in the 1930s, and especially the Hindenburg disaster where the airship burst into flames, hydrogen fell into disuse.
In 2008, the CA-150 airship was launched by Vantage Airship.
In modern common usage, the terms zeppelin and airship are used interchangeably for any type of rigid airship.
In the 1980s, Per Lindstrand and his team introduced the GA-42 airship, the first airship to use fly-by-wire flight control which considerably reduced the pilot's workload.
The airship remained on the ground until the following day, permitting a detailed examination by French airship experts.
The first printed work on the airship was "A Controllable Metallic Balloon" (1892), in which he gave the scientific and technical rationale for the design of an airship with a metal sheath.
The ultimate altitude record for a rigid airship was set in 1917 by the L-55 under the command of Hans-Kurt Flemming when he forced the airship to convert attempting to cross France after the "Silent Raid" on London.
This feat failed to generate enthusiasm for continued airship development, and the British airship program was rapidly wound down.
Twentieth century In September 1916, following an attack on St Albans, the German Airship SL 11 became the first airship to be brought down over England.
Additionally, the company released iconic artwork featuring Aerith and the Highwind airship.
Beijing admitted that a second “unmanned airship” from China has entered other countries’ airspace, this time in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Beijing insists the white orb shot down off the Carolina coast early this month was just an errant civilian airship used mainly for meteorological research that went off course due to winds and had only limited “self-steering” capabilities.
Each region’s effectively its own puzzle, and even in the training level it’s highly unlikely you’ll be able to complete all the goals, recycle your buildings, and take off in your airship on your first attempt.
Even though the world hates and fears them, Armin, Mikasa, and the new members of the Scout Regiment have secured an airship and made their way to Eren and the Rumbling in a bid to stop Jaeger by any means necessary.
From there, he quickly melded the station to the Angel, resulting in a far larger, more stable airship.
He said the rights came to me via an “heirship” which I misheard as “airship,” and I considered hanging up.
In a statement on Friday, China’s foreign ministry said the balloon was for civilian meteorological and other scientific purposes and that it regretted that the airship had strayed into U.S. airspace.
NASA begins analyzing and assessing the possible debris field, based on the trajectory of the balloon, the weather and airship’s estimated payload.